A controversial bill has passed in France’s parliament and is moving towards the Senate for ratification that proposes to fine and jail individuals who incite others to abstain from taking prescribed medicine.
A deputy from Emmanuel Macron’s La République En Marche party, Brigitte Liso, said the bill is meant to protect vulnerable individuals who suffer from a pathology.
But critics of the development worry Macron’s government is targeting COVID vaccine skeptics and at the broader level, those who doubt whatever Big Pharma is selling.
The bill will punish those who provoke others “to abandon or abstain from therapeutic or prophylactic medical treatment.”
Violators of the law could face fines up to EUR 45,000 ($65,000 CAD), and three years in jail.
According to the bill, violators who incite others to avoid medical treatment takes place when “such abandonment or abstention is presented as beneficial to the health of the persons concerned, whereas it is, in the current state of medical knowledge, manifestly likely to result in a therapeutic or prophylactic medical treatment for them, in view of the pathology from which they suffer, serious consequences for their physical or mental health.”
The bill is only targeting those who discourage medical treatment when doing so could lead to “immediate risk of death or injury likely to result in mutilation or permanent disability.”
Framed as a law that punishes quacks
In a social media post expressing support for her bill – that Liso reposted – it’s framed as clamping down on pseudo-health individuals who sell unscientific ‘alternative medicines’ in place of medically prescribed treatment.
“When you sell carrot juice to a person with cancer, you are a criminal,” a post read from Mathieu Lefèvre, another deputy under Macron.
He added: “The offense of inciting people to abandon care proposed by @brigitte_liso is an essential response to protect victims and punish these charlatans.”
mRNA can lead to serious adverse effects
While Canadian Health authorities continue to laud the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines, a recent study analyzing data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) identified a striking increase in myocarditis cases following COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States.
In January, the Epoch Times discovered that America’s top public health agency – the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – knew about concerns over heart inflammation as early as May 25, 2021, and even drafted an alert over it, but they never sent the alert over fears it would “appear alarmist.”
With notes from Alexa Posa
